Blog Action Day

The theme this year is Global Warming. While I’m only a couple of credits shy of a BSc in Environmental Science (life and babies intervened), I’m not going to weigh in here. I’m going to point you to 2 talks that were given at TEDGlobal.

James Balog has sobering time-lapse photography spectacularly depicting vanishing glaciers. There can be no doubt global warming is real.

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_balog_time_lapse_proof_of_extreme_ice_loss.html

Michael Pritchard has the technology to turn dirty water into clean, sterile drinking water. Global warming isn’t just about weather; it is also about access to water. We need to stop global warming, and in the mean time make safe drinking water available. Here’s hope!

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter.html